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"id": 144369,
"accession_number": "1969.16",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "Fragmented Figure Construction, 1963. Richard Hunt (American, 1935\u20132023). Welded steel; base: 35.6 x 66 x 66 cm (14 x 26 x 26 in.); unframed: 143.5 cm (56 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arnold H. Maremont, 1969.16. \u00a9 Richard Hunt",
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"title": "Fragmented Figure Construction",
"creation_date": "1963",
"creation_date_earliest": 1963,
"creation_date_latest": 1963,
"artists_tags": [
"male",
"Black American Artists"
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"culture": [
"America"
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"technique": "welded steel",
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"department": "Contemporary Art",
"collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Base: 35.6 x 66 x 66 cm (14 x 26 x 26 in.); Unframed: 143.5 cm (56 1/2 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"base": {
"height": 0.356,
"height_inch": 14,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
"width": 0.66,
"width_inch": 26,
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"depth": 0.66,
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"height": 1.435,
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Richard Hunt",
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 301294,
"title": "Works from the Contemporary Collection",
"description": "Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).",
"opening_date": "1969-07-01T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 301313,
"title": "Year in Review: 1969",
"description": "Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 445303,
"title": "Richard Hunt",
"description": "Richard Hunt. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-June 7, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-03-23T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 302145,
"title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture",
"description": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-09-24T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 302349,
"title": "Materials and Techniques of 20th-Century Artists",
"description": "Materials and Techniques of 20th-Century Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 17, 1976-January 2, 1977).",
"opening_date": "1976-11-17T05:00:00"
}
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"legacy": [
{
"description": "CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969",
"opening_date": "1969-10-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"Year in Review for 1969,\" CMA (Jan. 28 - Feb. 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-01-28T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"Richard Hunt,\" Museum of Modern Art, New York (Mar. 23 - June 7, 1971) and the Art Institute of Chicago (Aug. 21 - Oct. 4, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-03-23T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture,\" CMA (1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "\"The Appropriate Object,\" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Mar. 4 - April 23, 1989). Also to Detroit Institute of Arts (May 15 - July 15, 1989) and J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (Nov. 13, 1989 - Jan. 7, 1990).",
"opening_date": "1989-03-04T00:00:00"
}
]
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"description": "Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt embarked on his artistic career in 1955 when he taught himself to become a master welder. During the 1960s, his abstract work often referred to human, plant, and animal shapes. This sculpture balances on two splayed legs, appearing to strain and bulge with energy. Light and shadow define the curving ridges and hollows of its form, in which remnants of industrial waste are folded and fused together beyond recognition. Color and texture continually change as the eye scans the surface-from deep brown tones to flashes of coppery iridescence, and from scuffs and abrasions to polished sheens. Hunt relied on a vigorous technique to convey the presence of life and \"the kind of forms nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her.\"",
"external_resources": {
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79921472"
],
"internet_archive": []
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 200",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n224"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5"
},
{
"citation": "Kupka, Frank, Paul Klee, Larry Poons, Richard Hunt, and Edward B. Henning. \u201cA Group of Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 4 (May 1970): 107\u2013126.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 123-126, figs. 20-22",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152324"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 254",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n274"
}
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"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.16",
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"creditline": "Gift of Arnold H. Maremont",
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"birth_year": "1935",
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"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1969-05-10T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1963,
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:30.321000"
}
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